Drugs and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Pharmacology

For undergraduate courses in Drugs and Behavior Psychopharmacology, as well as graduate survey courses in Psychopharmacology. This text provides an understanding of basic pharmacology and behavior analysis, along with a discussion of the history of each class of drugs and its current place in modern western culture. Student-friendly and accessible, this new edition provides students with impartial scientific information on the effects of drugs on behavior and the various ways that behaviors facilitate both the actions of drugs and the way people use them. - NEW - Completely updated and reorganized - Each class of drugs is introduced, accompanied by historical data, placed in a social context, and then is discussed in terms of its neuropharmacology, effects on behavior, abuse potential, use patterns, and effects and damages - Enables students to fully grasp each class of drugs and their neurological, psychological, and social effects. - NEW - Added chapter on inhaled substances - Covering solvents and anesthetics - Introduces students to recent findings on currently-used and abused drugs. - NEW - Extended discussion of club drugs - Includes ecstasy, ketamine, dextromethorphan, flu

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Page 108Figure 6-1 Yearly alcohol consumption, in gallons per person, of raw alcohol from
l850 to l990 in the United States. Note that there are three peaks in consumption
about 60 years apart. The gap in the early part of the twentieth century is due to ...

Page 122of low consumption lasting two or three days. During this time, withdrawal
symptoms may appear. Figure 5-3 shows the drinking pattern of alcoholic
volunteers who worked on an operant schedule of button pushing to earn drinks.
This pattern ...

Page 123This means that if the price of beer were to double, consumption would go down
by only 20 percent. Demand for spirits, on the other hand, has much higher
coefficients (ranging from -0.57 to -l.95), indicating elasticity. Elasticity of wine
varies, ...